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At Rome our travellers found a kindred spirit in the 
son of Sir Thomas Browne, of Norwich,* who refers in two of 
his letters to their meeting, remarking that: “ Mr. Wray 
is here at Rome: hee hath been in Sicilia and Malta”; 
and again, writing to his father: ‘Mr. Wray hath made 
a collection of plants, fisshes, foules, stones, and other 
rarities, which hee hath with him; and Mr. Skippon, besides 
a great number which hee hath sent home, though they had 
the ill fortune to loos one venture with a servant of thers, 
who is now slane in Tunes.” 
About French birds there is not very much anywhere in 
“The Ornithology”: no opportunity was given them for 
observations of this nature, yet at Montpellier several dried 
“cases”? of the Flamingo, “which is often taken about 
Martiguez,” came under notice. At Montpellier, Willughby 
(now aged twenty-seven) parted from his three companions, 
and proceeded to Spain, where he kept a rather brief journal 
of notes, which contains one reference to Red-legged Part- 
ridges. A letter which he wrote to Ray from Paris on his 
way home, is still to be seen at the Natural History Museum. 
Ray and Skippon remained at Montpellier until December, 
and then returned by way of Lyons and Paris to England, 
but unfortunately lost a portion, if not all, the notes taken 
in Germany. 
* « Browne’s Works” edited by Wilkin, Vol. I., pp. 77, 87. 
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